William James Quotes
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Dear Habicht, Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
